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hanika
hanika
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November 14, 2025
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Fortimanager Best Practices

  • November 14, 2025
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Hi there,

New to Fortimanager and trying to figure out some simple best practices. I have to roll out around 20 x 70G firewalls across 20 locations. The configuration of these firewalls will be identical. Struggling a little in Fortimanager with creating zones, software switches, etc. Would a best practice to be just setting one up locally exacly how I want it and then importing the config to push to the others or is there a better way?

These are all pretty simple... few software switches with VLAN's all grouped into zones and a handful of policy rules.

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Anthony_E
Staff
Anthony_E
Staff
November 17, 2025

Hello Hanika,


Thank you for using the Community Forum. I will seek to get you an answer or help. We will reply to this thread with an update as soon as possible.


Thanks,

Best Regards
Jean-Philippe_P
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Jean-Philippe_P
Staff & Editor
November 18, 2025

Hello,

 

We are still looking for an answer to your question.

 

We will come back to you ASAP.

Jean-Philippe - Fortinet Community Team
Jakob-AHHG
Jakob-AHHG
Explorer III
November 18, 2025

Hi Hanika,

You need to do:
1: Set ADOMs, if needed

2: Set site values...: Device Manager: Rightclick on: Managed Fortigates, select 'Edit Variable Settings'.
Variables set here, can be specific for each site, or global, and then used in templates and scripts! Like, if you set a 'siteID' that is uniqe for each site, you could insert it in templates when you create VLAN IP nets: 10.${siteID}.${vlan}.0

 

3: Set Device Manager: Provisioning Templates.

Create Provistion templates for various parts of the system, some is GUI, others is scripts (aka CLI commands).

 

4: Add your FortiGates, either by direct connection or by pre-entering the serialnumber, then set the Site details for it, and then connect it and push the provisioning templates for the site to it.

Hope it makes sence.

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